"Modern technology is the worst thing to happen to the world. And to promote its progress is nothing short of criminal."
The film is based on Theodore Kaczynskis, a.k.a The Unabombers criminal life. Ted (Copley) was a doctor of Mathematics who ended up living in the wilderness for 20+years, compelled to this way of life due to modern technologies impact on the earth. Ted, after seeing all the land everywhere he goes being chewed up by modern industry, decides to take personal revenge on western society.
In his campaign of revenge Ted planted 15 successful bombs from 1978 to 1995, killed 3 people and wounded dozens of others.
This is an isolationist and minimalist film through and through. The director and writer did delve here and there into Teds motivations, but in most cases they opted to show his isolation and conflicts with his family and with modern society instead.
The film has exceptionally clean visuals, but nothing special or new to create a sense of dynamism to this story. Its all laid out procedurally and linearly, heavily relying on the letters that Ted wrote himself.
The film was a touch too long in my view, and would have been a more entertaining docufilm / biography piece if it were 30mins shorter. Or if there were more portions on the victims and their struggles this would have panned this out.
Some interesting aspects were Copleys acting and the fact that they filmed on the same land where Ted lived himself.
Worth a watch for some of the clean landscape shots and Copleys acting rather than anything else.
The film is based on Theodore Kaczynskis, a.k.a The Unabombers criminal life. Ted (Copley) was a doctor of Mathematics who ended up living in the wilderness for 20+years, compelled to this way of life due to modern technologies impact on the earth. Ted, after seeing all the land everywhere he goes being chewed up by modern industry, decides to take personal revenge on western society.
In his campaign of revenge Ted planted 15 successful bombs from 1978 to 1995, killed 3 people and wounded dozens of others.
This is an isolationist and minimalist film through and through. The director and writer did delve here and there into Teds motivations, but in most cases they opted to show his isolation and conflicts with his family and with modern society instead.
The film has exceptionally clean visuals, but nothing special or new to create a sense of dynamism to this story. Its all laid out procedurally and linearly, heavily relying on the letters that Ted wrote himself.
The film was a touch too long in my view, and would have been a more entertaining docufilm / biography piece if it were 30mins shorter. Or if there were more portions on the victims and their struggles this would have panned this out.
Some interesting aspects were Copleys acting and the fact that they filmed on the same land where Ted lived himself.
Worth a watch for some of the clean landscape shots and Copleys acting rather than anything else.